Example sentences of "[verb] [be] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The FMPS has been at the show for 20 years , and its display included static engines , used in the past to drive water pumps , mills and generators , said FMPS organiser Jeffrey Giblin . |
| 32 | On the other hand , any artist who has been at the game long enough will have developed preferences for certain kinds of subject matter , for example Degas ' dancing girls , Céanne 's mountain , or Connard 's bathroom . |
| 33 | The department , headed by Mr Jeff Barker who has been at the University for 27 years , caters for the two dining rooms at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , serving breakfast and dinner to the 400 students Monday to Friday , breakfast and lunch Saturday and Sunday . |
| 34 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 35 | This is a distinction which has been at the heart of a good deal of post-war curricular reform in the schools both in the USA and the UK ( see , for example , Bruner 1960 ) , and which will be explored further in due course . |
| 36 | Nude or clothed , the female figure has been at the centre of debates about the genius in art . |
| 37 | The struggle against the powerlessness encouraged by the medical model , especially in certain political settings , has been at the core of many liberation movements and this struggle has been especially powerful within women 's liberation movements . |
| 38 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 39 | Above all , instrumental and purposive rationality has been at the heart of the whole project of Western science and technology which has , over the last two centuries , transformed the natural and social orders . |
| 40 | Jet Services , which has been at the forefront of French multihull sailing , will build works skipper , Serge Madec a maxi likely to be designed by Gilles Ollier . |
| 41 | The idea of the ‘ self ’ — what gives an individual a sense of personal identity , and how others recognize this self — has been at the heart of a philosophical debate since David Hume claimed to repudiate the existence of the ‘ self ’ as a separate entity in the eighteenth century ( Hume , 1739 ) . |
| 42 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 43 | Inflation has been at the root of many of the worst economic problems that we have faced , and was certainly at the root of the problems in pre-war Germany , to which the right hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 44 | The project build on considerable experience of applied GIS : the School of Geography at the University of Leeds has been at the forefront of international developments in applied geographical modelling and through GMAP ( Geographical Modelling and Planning ) Ltd. is now applying its unique state of the art approach in many varied business and planning environments . |
| 45 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 46 | PORTADOWN has been at the top of an IRA hit list for at least two years . |
| 47 | Tesco has been at the forefront of development and the selection we offer reflects our commitment to this area of growing interest and our concern for healthier lifestyles . |
| 48 | Self-evaluation from which review and audit can begin has been at the heart of a long-standing national project , Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 49 | Although these models are able to represent more complex situations , to some extent this has been at the cost of reduced elegance and simplicity and only the entity-relationship model of Chen is widely used as a data modelling tool . |
| 50 | Whether it 's petty cash , invoicing , or conference organising , 's your person ! has been at the maltings for just over a year and takes care of all those time consuming , but essential , administration services , appreciated by us all . |
| 51 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 52 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 53 | The dispute over the bird has been at the centre of a long-running debate over the fate of the US 's last remaining ancient forests , which has included acrimonious exchanges between environmentalists and the timber industry . |
| 54 | Erm I great exception to that because the savings on his side may be public transport has been at the expense of the workers in public transport and the people who use public transport . |
| 55 | For the last three years , N C V O has been at the centre of the critical debates . |
| 56 | Alex Mitchell has been at the station for five years . |
| 57 | Simon Wigg has been at the top of his sport for a decade but has never ridden on the road . |
| 58 | It is not the first time the council has been at the centre of a disagreement over charges for collection of waste . |
| 59 | The Development Board for Rural Wales ' education industry development officer , Keith Harding , has been at the forefront of developing the project in rural Wales . |
| 60 | Raymond Tovey , who has been at the school since 1982 , is taking early retirement . |